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Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Post by Viccro »

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #184
Viccro wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in a similar boat with RSI; Vimium is a huge help to me. What do you use for a windows manager?

I use Divvy as it was the only one I found that had the ability to scale up to larger number grids. https://mizage.com/windivvy/ You can see the rest of my ergonomic aids here: https://twitter.com/mbuckbee/status/1463598464252665866 - Kinesis Freestyle split keyboard tented and then tented even more with slanted yoga blocks - 4K monitor/tv to show multiple screens to reduce alt-tabbing - Magic trackpad mounted on a c…

Amazing, thank you for sharing!

Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Post by apozem »

philc wrote: post #104

(I'm one of the authors) Love seeing this on HN today! It seems to get some front page attention every couple of years. Thank you everyone for the encouragement! Related: last week I published a very similar extension, but for Google Sheets. https://github.com/philc/sheetkeys

Thank you for your excellent work! I have some RSI issues and try not to use the mouse as much as possible. Vimium helps me avoid wear and tear every single day. I love it and install it immediately on any new Chrome instance.

(I am about to use it to press the "reply" button to submit this comment. It's fantastic.)

Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Post by donio »

prettyStandard wrote: post #3

Tried using this recently. Even though I use vim daily I haven't made good use of Vimium yet. In fact I found it more annoying because it naturally breaks sites that I do know keybindings for like YouTube. Overall I don't want to come across as critical of of something that just needs a little effort to use, more of just setting expectations. Normally this would be less of an issue but for me, I ran into this problem…

It's very easy to add exceptions for individual sites, for example letting youtube have f for full-screen. You just click on the Vimium icon on toolbar and it pops up the dialog for that. You can do it in 5 seconds even while you are rowing.

Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Post by krmbzds »

crabbone wrote: post #162
tastysandwich wrote: post #12

I used Vimperator on Firefox about 10 years ago. Back then it was fantastic, but I think the add-on environment has changed in FF (WebExtensions) since then and add-ons aren't as powerful. I've used Vimium on Chrome. Every few years I get excited, install it, feel 10x more productive, and then a few days later uninstall it. As I recall, it doesn't work on the New Tab page. It doesn't work if the address bar is in foc…

Well, I never want the site's keybindings anyways. They are without a fault, always worse than the general-purpose navigation offered by the extension (I use Surfingkeys, but it's the same idea). Unfortunately, the extension cannot always overpower site's key-bindings, and that's where it sucks. However, there's one exception to that rule: every now and then I need to work with a VNC in the browser, and in that speci…

You can use to disable SurfingKeys for that specific website instead of disabling it globally.

Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Post by krmbzds »

noname120 wrote: post #159
krmbzds wrote: post #132

I settled with Surfingkeys after I tried Vimium, Vimium C, Pentadactyl and Vimperator. Here's my Surfingkeys configuration as an ex-Vimium user: api.map('F', 'gf'); api.Hints.setCharacters("asdgqwertzxcvb"); It makes open in new tab behave like Vimium and f work like a toggle. Hope this helps someone looking for a better option migrating from Vimium. [0] https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys

Could you expand on the advantages of Surfingkeys compared to the 4 other options that you mention?

SurfingKeys has way more features. It supports Firefox and Chromium-based browsers so I can keep a single config file for both (.config/surfingkeys/config). Vimium and Vimium C are good if you need basic Vim navigation capabilities. Pentadactyl and Vimperator (both discontinued) are Firefox-only.

Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Post by crabbone »

krmbzds wrote: post #194
crabbone wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, I never want the site's keybindings anyways. They are without a fault, always worse than the general-purpose navigation offered by the extension (I use Surfingkeys, but it's the same idea). Unfortunately, the extension cannot always overpower site's key-bindings, and that's where it sucks. However, there's one exception to that rule: every now and then I need to work with a VNC in the browser, and in that speci…

You can use to disable SurfingKeys for that specific website instead of disabling it globally.

There isn't any specific site to disable. It's just an IP that was allocated randomly to my cluster on the VPN I'm connected to. But, sometimes they also have domain names because I need that. Anyways, my point was: it's not that much of a burden really.

Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Post by senjin »

rsapkf wrote: post #89

One Vimium feature that I use a lot is the "Vomnibar". As a heavy bookmarks user, it lets me easily search for any existing duplicates before bookmarking a page by just pressing 'b'. If I start the search with "/ ", it will show the full path to the bookmark folder too!

Using `T` to search through open tabs is the best

Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Post by yonrg »

nrabulinski wrote: post #118
rochak wrote: post #100

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I don’t think any of those browsers have the rich extensions I need. For this sole reason, they are out of the competition.

Just out of curiosity, what extensions do you need for your day-to-day use?

For me those would be required: tridactyl, ublock, foxyproxy. Optional ones: sidebery, stylus, cookieautodelete.

Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Post by krmbzds »

crabbone wrote: post #196
krmbzds wrote: post #194

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You can use to disable SurfingKeys for that specific website instead of disabling it globally.

There isn't any specific site to disable. It's just an IP that was allocated randomly to my cluster on the VPN I'm connected to. But, sometimes they also have domain names because I need that. Anyways, my point was: it's not that much of a burden really.

I see, just wanted to help if you weren't aware of the shortcut. It took me a while to discover it on Firefox because is used to toggle fingerprint resistance. That's why I remapped it to '' in my setup.

    // privacy.resistFingerprinting breaks alt keybindings
    api.map('', '');
    api.unmap('');
SurfingKeys remembers disabled websites so it can be a time-saver.

Re: Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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Post by nephanth »

tetraca wrote: post #187
GabrieleR wrote: post #145

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Is there a Linux version? It looks very handful

On linux, you can just install one of the DEs that are keyboard driven. Rat poison is one. I used that with Conkeror (a fully keyboard driven browser with emacs keys) for a long time.

There's also good old i3, which has vim-inspired key maps by default iirc
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